Pin-board.



E. L. BBSSB.

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904,598. Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

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EDWARD L. BFSSE, OF FAIRHAVEN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGN OR TO NEW BEDFORD FOUNDRY & MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW BEDFORI), MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAS SAOH USETTS.

No. 904,698. a

PIN-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 12, 1908. Serial No. 420,562.

To all fwhom it may concem:

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. Bnssa, a

I citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fairhaven, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pin-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

I My invention relates to pin-boards for reyarn, etc., and temporarilv storingthe same after their removal from the machinery.

The pin-boards now in use in thread and cotton mills consist usually of a board provided with a number of upwardly extending wooden pins for receivin the spools. These boards, which are usually about three feet long and a foot and a half wide and which accordingly accommodate a large number of bobbins or spools of thread,.yarn, etc., ordinarily weigh, together with their contents,

about one hundred and fifty pounds. As the boards become filled, they are removed and stored away in stacks which eventually beoperation the wooden spools are frequently come of considerable weight. It has been found in practice that during this stacking ins which receive the roken by the operat1ves act of slidin a board over the top of the spools held by t e board next below. In order to overcome this diiiiculty it was attempted to substitute iron bolts for the wooden ins, but such construction so reatly increased the weight of the pin-boards that its use was abandoned. The object of the present invention is to rovide a pin board which shall obviate the efects above pointed out by substituting v elastic or yielding pins for the stiff and brittl e woodenpins of the rior art.

My invention there ore consists in a pin board having a plurality of elastic pins secured thereto an also inmeans for securing said elastic pins to the base board so as to A prevent the turning of a pin in its hole and the withdrawal of the same therefrom, and

' also to prevent it from being forced into or a. part of this specification show several emsat through the board.

The drawings which accompany and form bodiments of my improved pin-board which have proven etneient in practice; but it will be understood that sa d drawings serve to more full' disclose my invention at'many modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of my invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is ail-elevation, partly in section, or one form of pin-board constructed in accordance with the present invention, and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is an elevation, part y in section, illus-. trating one of a number of alternative means that may be employed for securing a in to a base-board. Fig. 4 is an elevation and Fig. 5 is a plan view of a modification of my invention.

In the figures, A represents a base or ha seboard which may be of any suitable material and which preferably is made of wood; In that particular embodiment of the present invention shown in Figs, 1 and 2, the baseboard is provided with a plurality of holes extending part way therethrough. The elastic pins shown in the drawings consist of the bent wires C, which may be of steel,

brass, bronze or other-suitable material, and

shown the pins as having their ends termihating in outwardly extendin feet F.

Each pin is inserted in a hole an a plug D,

which preferably is made of wood, is driven in the hole, thereby forcing a portion of the wire pin into the walls'of the hole as shown at E, and also forcing the feet of the pin outwardly at the bottom of the hole B. In this way the pin isprevented from turning in the board and is held from withdrawal therefrom, and also from being forced further into or through the board.

I represents an empty spool or bobbin I supported on one of the pins.

It has been found that when a pin-board constructed as above described is completely filled with spools such as shown at I, but carrying yarn or thread, such boards by virtue of the elasticity of the pins C, ma be placed on and withdrawn from the stac of pin-boards without breaking said pins, or otherwise injuring the same.

Inasmuch as it is desirable to have th pins retain the bobbins in such manner as to prevent the latter from being jarred from position or dislodged byaccident, I prefer to so shape each pm with respect to the central hole passing through said bobbins that the placing of a bobbin over a pin will slightly compress a portion of the pin, al-

oft

though it is to be understood that the friction exerted between a pin and bobbin due to the elasticity of the pin is not to be so reat as to revent the ready removal of t e bobbin rom the pin by an operative. This advantageous result which is accomlished by my invention cannot be effected y the pin-boards of the prior art in which inelastic wooden or iron pins are emplo ed. As shown in Fig. 1, one simple way 0 accomglishing this result is to make a portion e pin a little wider-than the diameter of the hole in the bobbin which the pin is to retain.

It is not necessary to employ a plug D for securing the pins to the in-board, for, as shown in Fig. 3, the in may be bent so as to form two latera extensions or sto s H, H and may be inserted in the holes G which ass through the base A. The lower ends of the pin may be bent as shown at F to prevent withdrawal of the pin from said base while the stops H H revent any further downward movement oft e pin. the base-board should be countersunk so that the stopsH, H and the ends F, F may be flush with the surface thereof.

the nails K. In this form of my invention,

As shown,

the strip of pins, which may be made in de sired len ths by machine, may be quickly ap lied, t ereby effecting a savin of labor,

an the pins may be automatica ly spaced 3. A pin-board coin rising a base provided with a plurality 0 holes, an elastic pin formed of bent wire and having its ends terminating in outwardly extending feet for each hole, and a plug for securing each pin in its hole by forcing said feet into the base.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 10 day of March EDWARD L. BESSE.

1908. In Figs. 4 and 5, J represents a flat metal Witnesses:

Emor D. STETSON, Gunners Gems, Jr. 

